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benefit sharing

Benefit sharing is the action of giving a portion of advantages [benefits] /profits derived from the use of [genetic resources or traditional knowledge] to resource providers. (Source: CBD)

Benefit sharing as used in the context of REDD+ refers to how financial incentives transferred from international funds or carbon markets are shared between actors within recipient countries.
Benefit sharing for REDD+ can be defined as agreements between stakeholders about the distribution of monetary benefits. (Source: Forest Carbon Partnership / World Bank Group)

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Nagoya Protocol

Treaty articles

Global Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism

Access to Genetic Resources

(iii) (iii) Terms on subsequent third-party use, if any; and

Plant Treaty

Treaty articles

Benefit-sharing in the Multilateral System

(d) d)Sharing of monetary and other benefits of commercialization

The Governing Body shall, at its first meeting, determine the level, form and manner of the payment, in line with commercial practice. The Governing Body may decide to establish different levels of payment for various categories of recipients who commercialize such products; it may also decide on the need to exempt from such payments small farmers in developing countries and in countries with economies in transition. The Governing Body may, from time to time, review the levels of payment with a view to achieving fair and equitable sharing of benefits, and it may also assess, within a period of five years from the entry into force of this Treaty, whether the mandatory payment requirement in the MTA shall apply also in cases where such commercialized products are available without restriction to others for further research and breeding.

Decisions

Resolution 5/2009: Procedures for the Third Party Beneficiary

Decision is tagged with benefit sharing

Resolution 5/2011 - Operation of the Third Party Beneficiary

Decision is tagged with benefit sharing

Convention on Biological Diversity

Treaty articles

Objectives

Article is tagged with benefit sharing

In-situ Conservation

(j) (j) Subject to its national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of such knowledge, innovations and practices;

Ex-situ Conservation

Each Contracting Party shall, as far as possible and as appropriate, and predominantly for the purpose of complementing in-situ measures:

Decisions

The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Strategic goal D: Enhance the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosystem services